On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 12:48 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > You can use e2label to label ext2 and ext3 filesystems with a name, on > USB sticks or not. For vfat, you can name the filesystem at creation > time with mkfs.vfat -n blah, AFAIK that's it. At least dosfstools > package doesn't seem to provide any other obvious way. I tried giving my USB flashdrive a volume name when doing a mkfs on it, but it was ignored (there was no volume name written to the drive). I can't ext2/3 tools in this case. One reason being the camera needs whatever it already uses for storing pictures (FAT or some variant). Another being to use the flashdrive as a simple way to take files between different operating systems. Not to mention that using a filing system that does lots of little writes as you read files from it, is bad news for RAM with a finite write life. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
